Posted on 06/30/2007 12:18:59 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Federal agents executed a search warrant at a home in Nogales, Ariz., used to conceal the entrance to a recently constructed tunnel that stretched nearly 100 yards underground to a residence across the border in Mexico.
The so-called Nogales passageway is one of the most extensive smuggling tunnels uncovered along the southwestern border since the discovery of a massive tunnel south of San Diego in January 2006.
Since the September 11 attacks, federal authorities have discovered more than 40 cross-border tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border in California and Arizona. U.S. authorities are conducting a $2.7 million project to fill in seven of the largest, including the one in Nogales, with asphalt and crushed aggregate.
Inside the tiny one-story Nogales home, agents from U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) discovered the tunnel"s entrance late Thursday afternoon in a utility room hidden beneath sheets of plywood weighted down with dirt-filled bags.
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It didn’t go all the way to mexico?
Huh? Why not just collapse the tunnels? Any decent Army engineer should be able to manage that with a few well-placed C4 charges.
We need to provide jobs for illegal aliens. Tunnels must be filled by hand.
I bet it is because it goes under peoples homes and businesses on the way to mexico. People who are not involved would be pretty peeved if the government blasted the dirt out from under their buildings.
This may not be the situation but I have no other reason to offer why they dont just blast em shut.
Can’t be. Feinstein declared them illegal.
geez, my aunt used to own land down there. The state govt would not allow any construction because property lines were so screwed up. Maybe it was because of all these tunnels and not lines screwed up.
The death of the Amnesty Bill was a great victory, but the war against illegal immigration has just begun.
Sadly, it is only a matter of time before the invasion becomes more overt - and violent.
Now that amnesty has been defeated, expect to see illegals taking what they want by force.
There is no longer any need for their PR campaigns showing them kissing the hem of the American flag.
You are right DiFi came to San diego, had a photo op at the tunnel found here last year, and with much fan fare, said they were illegal...but I think I read some where in this failed illegal immigrant bill, it was to be included in the bill, so I think it was all for show when she came to San Diego..
Interesting ICE can find tunnels that have never been used but can't find 500 illegals marching down Main Street USA in protest.
The tunnel is only 100 yards. Look out your backyard and estimate that's only the length between your house and both next door neighbors. Add a river down the middle and the only thing that would be damaged in collapsing the tunnel would be a few spiders and scorpions.
Probably a land mine strip would stop the tunneling. The Mexican invasion of the U.S. is winning.
Depends on the neighborhood. In my neighborhood 100 yards is 7.5 lots wide. A few blocks away, some lots are wider than 100 yards. Just think 'football field.'
There is no river @ the Nogales border. Also, the houses are tiny and built very closely to each other down there.
“Federal agents executed a search warrant at a home in Nogales, Ariz., used to conceal the entrance to a recently constructed tunnel that stretched nearly 100 yards underground to a residence across the border in Mexico. “
Funny, they didn’t mention is was McCains house.
blow it up!!!!!
Maybe in your neighborhood. Where I live 100 yards away is a block or more away.
Not anymore. Seems like the average distance is 100 inches when you look at the subdivisions (that used to be) going up in Florida.
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